Manocherian (The Hidden Sky at Prospect Theatre Company) plays Leo Frank with Jennifer Lorae (Fiddler on the Roof at St. Louis Muny) as Lucille Frank and Jenavene Hester (The Sound of Music at Paper Mill Playhouse, How the Grinch Stole Christmas) as Mary Phagan.

Parade, according to Gallery Players, "is based on the true events of the 1913 trial of Leo Frank, a Jewish man from Brooklyn who runs a pencil factory in Marietta, Georgia. Frank is accused of the murder of 13-year old Mary Phagan, a factory worker under his employ. Already guilty in the eyes of everyone around him, a sensationalist publisher, determined district attorney and a janitor’s false testimony seal Leo’s fate. His only defenders are a governor with a conscience, and eventually, his assimilated Southern wife who finds the strength and love to become his greatest champion. 2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the crime."

Parade features a Tony Award-winning score by Brown and a Tony-winning book by Uhry. The musical was also nominated for the 1999 Tony Award for Best Musical. The Gallery Players production of Parade reunites director Friedrichs, producer Robert Earle Jones, choreographer Christine O'Grady and musical director Julianne Merrill (A Man of No Importance). Their previous collaborations — Gallery's A Man of No Importance in 2012 and The Drowsy Chaperone in 2011 — garnered numerous New York Innovative Theatre Awards.